Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File R. 3,579, Nathan Fisk, N.H.

SERVICE
NUMBER
N.H.
Fisk, Nathan
P. 3,579
CONTENTS

Nathan Fiske Dunstable New Hampshire
9963
Where the declaration made before a Court or a Judge; (Not Applicable here.) in the State of New Hampshire ss. Nathan Fiske

BRIEF in the case of  Nathan Fisk  of  Unstable  in the State of  New Hampshire  (Act 7th June, 1832.)
1. Was the declaration made before a Court or a Judge? Court
2. If before a Judge, does it appear that the applicant is disabled by bodily infirmity?
3. How old is he? 68 Years
4. State his service, as directed in the form annexed.
   Period. Duration of Service. Rank. Names of General and Field Officers under whom he served.   Years, Months, Days.     Summer In 17. 80 " 6 " Private Gen. Sargent & Col. Lillie  
5. In what battles was he engaged? none stated
6. Where did he reside when he entered the service? Unstable N. Hampshire
7. Is his statement supported by living witnesses, by documentary proof, by traditional evidence, by incidental evidence, or by the rolls? Living witnesses & tradition = any evidence
8. Are the papers defective as to form or authentication? and if so, in what respect? Correct
X Certify that the foregoing statement and the answers agree with the evidence in the case above mentioned.
Edward Dwan
Examining Clerk.

STATE OF NEW-HAMPSHIRE.
County of Hillsborough, ss.
On this 28th  3 day of August A.D. 1832 Nathan Fisk personally appeared in open Court before the Court of Probate, now sitting at Ansbury within and for the County of Hillsborough, in the State aforesaid. Nathan Fisk a resident of the town of Dunstable in said county
Who being duly sworn according to law doth on his oath make the following declaration in order to obtain the benefit of the act of Congress, passed June 7th, 1832. That he entered the service of the United States, under the following named officers, and served as herein stated. That is to say,
In the summer of 1780 he enlisted for six months and served the term in Capt. Farwell's company in Col. Gilley's Regiment. Other officers of the company and regiment whose names he remembers were Lieut. Carr, Lieut. Smith - and Major Scott. He joined the Army at West Point - was stationed at different places - viz. Watervly, English neighborhood, Hackinsack, Constitution Island & Soldier's Fortune - at the last of which places he was discharged sometime he believes in the month of December. The regiment of Col. Dearborn was with him, ( & another regiment commanded he believes by Col. Warren) during a part if not the whole of this service.
He was born at Dunstable New Hampshire, June 13. 1764 - has no record of his age except a memorandum made by himself in his Bible - lives in Dunstable where called into the service - has ever since the Revolutionary War lived and now lives in the same place. He received a discharge from the service signed by Col. Gilley, but does not know

what has become of it. Hon. Daniel Abbott and Deacon Joseph Whitney are persons to whom he is known in his present neighborhood who can testify as to his character for veracity and their belief of his services as a soldier of the Revolution.
He relinquishes every claim, whatever, to a pension or annuity, whatever, except the present, and declares that his name is not on the pension roll, of the agency of any State, and subscribed the day and year aforesaid.
Nathan Fisk Sworn to
Edmund Parker, Judge of Probate
We Harold G. Nott a Clergyman residing in the town of Dunstable in the county of Hillsborough aforesaid, and Stephen Kimball residing in Dunstable aforesaid, hereby certify that we are well acquainted with Nathan Fisk who has subscribed and sworn to the above, and that we believe him to be 68 years of age, that he is reputed and believed in the neighborhood where he resides, to have been a soldier in the Revolution, and that we concur in that opinion. Sworn and subscribed the day and year aforesaid,
Harold G. Nott
Edmund Parker, Judge of Probate Stephen Kimball
And the said Court do hereby declare their opinion, that after the investigation of the matter, and putting the interrogatories prescribed by the War Department, that the above named applicant was a Revolutionary Soldier, and served as he states. And the Court further certifies that it appears to them, that Harold G. Nott who has signed the preceding Certificates is a Clergyman resident in the town of Dunstable and that Stephen Kimball who has signed the same, is a resident in the town of Dunstable and is a credible person, and that their statement is entitled to credit.
Edmund Parker - { Judge of Probate for said County of Hillsborough.
I CHARLES H. ATHERTON, Register of the court, do hereby certify, that the foregoing contains the original proceedings of the said Court, in the matter of the application of Nathan Fisk for a pension.
In testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and the seal of said court, this twenty eighth day of August in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and thirty-two.
Register of Probate, for said county of Hillsborough.
C. H. Atherton

9963 Nathan Fisk.
Please make return to Post Off. Dunstable M.

STATE OF NEW-HAMPSHIRE.
County of Hillsborough, to wit,
At the Court aforesaid, On the application aforesaid, the following interrogatories were propounded to the said Nathan Fiske and the following answers given, to wit:
1. Where, and in what year were you born?
Answer, Dunstable. N.H. June 17-1764
2. Have you any record of your age, and where is it?
Answer, I have no record except a memorandum made by myself in my Bible
3. Where were you living, when called into service, where have you lived since the Revolutionary War, and where do you now live? Answer, When called into the service I lived in Dunstable - ever since the War I have lived & now live in the same place
4. How were you called into service, were you drafted, did you volunteer, or were you a substitute, and if a substitute, for whom? Answer, I enlisted
5. State the names of some of the regular Officers, who were with the troops, where you served, such Continental and Militia Regiments, as you can recollect, and the general circumstances of your service?
Answer, I believe all the particulars within my recollection required by this interrogatory are stated in my foregoing declaration.
6. Did you ever receive a discharge from the service, and if so, by whom was it given, and what has become of it? Answer, I received a discharge signed by Col. Eddy but do not know what has become of it
7. State the names of persons to whom you are known in your present neighborhood, and who can testify as to your character for veracity, and their belief of your services as a Soldier of the Revolution?
Answer, Hon Daniel Root & Deacon Joseph Whitney of Dunstable
Certified by
C. H. Atherton Register.

Ex'r.
OLD W
No. 3579
Acts of July 14, 1862, and March 3, 1873.
REJECTED
Nathan Fish
P. O. _____
Service: Tri Rev. War. New Hampshire
Enlisted: _____
Discharged: _____
Application filed: _____
Alleges: _____
Re-enlisted: _____
Attorney: _____
P. O. _____

Nathan Fiske Unstoppable St. Hamps
9963
On the Roll of outst- ments from Durstale as having served 5 Mos & 20 days only
Repealed Nov 10 - 1842
Claimant Durstale N18

BRIEF objections to the admission of Pension Claims, of which those answered in the negative, in red ink, will apply to the claim of Nathan Fisk proof or explanation.
I. Does the declaration show where the applicant resides ? Yes II. Did the declarant make the declaration in the county where he resides ? Yes III. If the applicant did not make the declaration in the county where he resides, is there any reason assigned for his not doing so ? IV. Has the declarant mentioned the period or periods of the war when he served ? Yes V. *Has he mentioned with precision the length of his service, and the different grades in which he served, in language so definite as to enable the department to determine to what amount of pension he is entitled ? Yes VI. Has he given the names of the officers under whom he served, in conformity with the regulations ? Yes VII. Has he made a relinquishment of every claim to any other pension than the one under the Act of June 7, 1832 ? Yes VIII. Has the Court given their opinion ? Yes IX. Has the Clerk given his certificate ? Yes X. Is the Clerk's seal affixed ? And if so, has it a device or inscription by which it can be distinguished from any other seal ? Yes

XI. Has the applicant obtained the evidence of a clergyman and another respectable citizen as to their belief respecting his age and the general belief in his neighborhood relative to his revolutionary service? Yes
XII. If the clergyman's affidavit has not been produced, is there any reason assigned for not obtaining it?
XIII. If the applicant has no documentary evidence, and has not obtained the testimony of at least one living witness, has he stated in his declaration that such proof cannot be had?
XIV. † If the applicant has produced a witness or witnesses as to his service, has the magistrate who administered the oath certified that he, she, or they are persons of credibility? Yes
XV. Does it appear from any of the papers that the witness was in such a situation, or of such an age, as to have a personal knowledge of the applicant's service? Yes
XVI. ‡ Are the papers authenticated as the regulations direct? Yes
XVII. Are the seven interrogatories prescribed by the War Department answered satisfactorily? And, if not, which of them is not so answered? Yes
EXPLANATORY NOTES.
‡ QUERE V. In a case where the applicant cannot, by reason of the loss of memory, state precisely how long he served, he should amend his declaration by making an affidavit in the following words:
“Personally appeared before me, the undersigned, a Justice of the Peace, &c. A. B. who, being duly sworn, deposeth and saith, that, by reason of old age, and the consequent loss of memory, he cannot swear positively as to the precise length of his service, but according to the best of his recollection he served not less than the periods mentioned below, and in the following grades: For _____ year _____ months and _____ days, I served as a _____. For _____ months and _____ days, I served as a _____; and for such service I claim a pension.”

It is important in all cases to determine with precision the period for which the applicant served, and the particular rank he held, as the law directs the pension to be paid according to the grade of the pensioner and the length of his service. The use of the phrase about three or four months is too indefinite, and all such qualifying expressions are objectionable.
†QUERE XIV. Proof of Service.
In a case where the name of the applicant is not found on the records of the Department, he must prove his service by two credible witnesses, who are required to set forth in their affidavits the time of the claimants entering the service, and the time and manner of his leaving the same, as well as the regiment, company, and line to which he belonged. The magistrate who may administer the oaths must certify to the credibility of the witnesses, and the affidavits must be properly authenticated, as above directed.
†QUERE XVI. Mode of authenticating papers.
In every instance where the certificate of the certifying officer who authenticated the papers is not written on the same sheet of paper which contains the affidavit, or other paper authenticated, the certificate must be attached thereto by a piece of tape or narrow ribbon, the end of which must pass under the seal of office of the certifying officer, so as to prevent any paper from being improperly attached to the certificate.

Isaac Root
Dep. o
On Application
of
Nathan Fish

I Isaac Tool of Dunstable in the county of Hillsborough and State of New-Hampshire, of lawful age testify and say, That I enlisted as a Soldier in the the year Anno Domini one thousand seven hundred & eighty, in the month of May of that year, in the company commanded by Capt. Nathl. Hutchins in the Regiment of Col. Joseph Colley in Genl. Poois Brigade - I joined the American Army in the month of July following, which was then stationed at West Point -
I further depose that while I was doing duty in said Company, in the campaign aforesaid, I was well acquainted with Nathan Fish then a private in the Company commanded by Capt. Isaac Farewell of the same Regiment, which Company was stationed next but one to the Company I served in, and I saw said Fish frequently doing duty in said Company during said Campaign, & know that said Fish actually did service there in as a Soldier during said Campaign.
Isaac Tool
State of New-Hampshire -
Hillsborough ss. June 25 th 1832. Then the above named Isaac Tool personally appeared & made oath that the above affidavit by him subscribed is true.
Before Danl. Abbot Jus. Peace
I certify that the above deponent is a credible witness.
Danl. Abbot Jus. Peace.
June 25 th
Is

I Andrew Wallace, clerk of the Superior Court of Judicature for the County of Hillsborough in the State of New Hampshire, certify that Daniel Abbot within named is a Justice of the Peace for said County of Hillsborough, and duly empowered to administer oaths and that the within signature, purporting to be his, is genuine.
In testimony whereof, I have hereunto affixed my seal of Office, and subscribed my name, this twenty eighth day of August in the year of our Lord 1832.
A. Wallace Clerk

I Stephen Conery of Holles in the county of Hillsborough and State of New-Hampshire, in the seventy second year of my age, testify and say, that in the fifteenth year of my age, I enlisted into the service of the United States, in the Revolutionary Army, and that I served therein nearly five years and until the close of the war, when I was regularly discharged.
I further depose and testify that in the year Anno Domini one Thousand seven hundred eighty I was stationed on Constitution Island, East of West Point, in the Company commanded by Capt. McCallie in Col. Cilleys Regiment - I further testify, that in the month of June of that year Nathan Fish of Dunstable in the County aforesaid joined the Army with the Company commanded by Capt. Fraunces, in the same Regiment with myself, and did duty therein for the term of six months, being the period of his enlistment, after which he was discharged & returned home - I further depose, that I was well acquainted with said Fish before he went into the Army, and often saw him there and on duty & know that he served six months as aforesaid & was then discharged.
Attest Dan t . Abbot
his Stephen X Conery mark
State of New-Hampshire Hillsborough ss. July 20 th 1832. Then the above named Stephen Conery personally appeared & made Oath the above affidavit by him subscribed is true.
Before Dan t . Abbot Jus. Peace
I certify that the above deponent is a credible witness
(Dan t . Abbot Jus. Peace)
July 20

I Andrew Wallace, clerk of the Superior Court of Ju- diciary for the County of Hillsborough in the State of New Hampshire, certify that Daniel Abbot within named is a Justice of the Peace for said County of Hillsborough, and duly empowered to administer oaths and that the within signature, purporting to be his, is genuine.
In testimony whereof, I have hereunto af- fixed my seal of Office, and subscribed my name this twenty eighth day of August in the year of our Lord 1832.
A. Wallace Clerk
Stephen Converse Esq. On application of Nathan Fisk

Sep. 25. 9963 A. H. Hark
Hon. Lewis Cass
Sec of War
Washington City
Sept 1843